The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-09-03
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prominent business man and manufacturer
of that city, died at New Haven, Conn,
few days since. He was fifty-seven years
Of age.
Work on the Bald Knob extension of the
Missouri Pacific road from Bald Knob,
Mo-, to Memphis, Tenn, a distance OF
eighty-three miles, is being pushed rapid
ly, and trains will be running by Novem-
Der /,
c. E. Bartlett, cashier of the Sumter
National Bank at Sumter, S. c., disap-
peared few days ago. and it was subse-
quently ascertained that he had absconded
with about $4,000 The bank has suspend.
ed temporarily, but can stand the loss.
! G. G. Miller, of Starke, Fla, a wealthy
orange-grower, and ]. c. Richards, also
wealthy citizen of that place, quarreled
recently over domestic difficulty. Rich
ards was shot and mortally wounded.
Miller, fearing lynching, fed to Jackson
+ vile, where he is under arrest.
William Wilson was assassinated near
Vicksburg, Miss, a few nights ago, while
on his way home, by Perry johnson, who
was concealed in the bushes The latter
was arrested and jailed at Vicksburg.
Both parties are colored, and have been
under peace bonds for the past five months.
Thomas Green, Berry Cook, James Cook
and William Taylor became enraged at
Tiny Charlton at negro supper, three
miles from Savannah, Ca, a few nights
ago. When on the way home Green
felled Charlton to the ground with club,
and when the latter regained conscious
ness Berry Cook stabbed him in the throat
with knife, running the blade in to the
hilt.
An anti-Cleveland daily newspaper, to
be called the World, is soon to be started
at Atlanta, Ga.
In Tennessee town nineteen of the last
twenty babies born were girls.
Caterpillars have appeared in Houston
County, Ga, in large numbers. They have
done little damage as yet, but will soor
clear up things if they are as aggressive as
those of last season.
Wholesale merchants in New York re
port bigger orders from the South this sea
son than ever before. Prosperity in the
South seems to have come to stay.
A North Carolina man has given tn,
ladies' aid society of his church five
thousand cigarettes to be sold for the be
nevolent objects of the society. Some
people have queer ideas of doing good.
Governor Knott of Kentucky, at the eX
piration of his term of Office, will settle il
Louisville and perhaps become a journal
ist. He is said to have an eye on tn,
, United States Senate.
The South Carolina rice crop has beer
almost ruined by floods. The losses of til,
planters are enormous, and the coloreC
plantation hands are threatened witt
starvation during the winter unless re
lieved by public charity.
, Mrs. Sarah Jackson, wife of Andrew
| Jackson, Jr., and mistress of the Whit
House during President Jackson's secon
term, died at "The Hermitage" a fey
days since, aged eighty-one years.
: A tobacco factory belonging to ].
Hardin & Co., at Magyar, KY, burned
= few nights ago. The building containe
, 10000 pounds of tobacco, which was pai
TALLY insured. There was no insurance o.
{ the building. Evidences of incendiarisr
were discovered.
Mrs. Catherine Mauser, who celebrate
her nineteth birthday on the 4th inst
died a few nights ago at her residence i
Hopknsville, KY. Mrs. Mauser was Dor
and reared in Virginia. Herremains wei
sent to relatives in Newport, KY, wher
they were inferred.
, The Standard Oil Works, Pearce's di
, tillery and Swans marble works at Nash
? vile, Tenn, were destroyed by fire a fe'
, nights ago. The loss will aggregate nearl
100000; insurance very small. The origi
of the fire is unknown.
;wl
dent Hadden of Memphis, Tenn, havin
been quashed by Judge Dubose, the maj
ter was referred to the new grand jur,
and that body returned four Indictment
two for embezzlement and two for ma
feasance in office. President Hadden
, lying very i'll at Montesano, Ala.
Q Jacob Sipes, a wel-known and wealth
3 farmer, was thrown from his buggy an
instantly killed near Custer, KY, fe
days ago. The wheel of his buggy struC
a stone in the road, and he was pitche
!, out, his head striking the stone. He leave
l a large family.
Work has been begun on the erection
a 1000 bridge over the Tenness river 6
u Chattanooga, Tenn. The necessary stoc
Il for building the bridge was raised in tn
b been closed, and contract signed with
It bridge company for the erection of th
bridge. 1t will be an elegant structm
Il about 800 feet in length.
During thunderstorm in Aiken County
a S. c., few days ago, Mrs. Allen Poo
Il Mrs. James Harley and Mrs. Uri Nobl
A with their children, were returning
:, their home from visit to neighbor
house, when bolt of lightning struck
their midst, instantly killing Mrs. Mob
and seriously, and perhaps fatally, inju
|. ing Mrs. Pool. Four of the children wei
u slightly hurt. Mrs. Mobiles infant, whic
It she was carrying in her arms when 81
was killed, escaped without the slightei
10 injury.
O. Major W. S. Munday died at his res
j. dence in Gallatin, Tenn, a few days az
Al from cancer of the tongue. He was sixty
"a seven years old, and had long been regarr
:. ed as one of the most successful lawyers
- Middle Tennessee. At the age of twent,
one he was elected County Court clerk an
in 1855 was State enator. He was